Jan 3
Orion
I finally got a decent picture of Orion. An almost half moon is lighting up the foreground, but it should be looking even better on Monday or Tuesday when the moon is getting fuller. If only we get clear skies, that is – it was supposed to be sunny today but the clouds didn’t go away until at sunset. Anyway, I need the extra light so I can reduce the ISO. I don’t know what the noise reduction kept doing because it sure didn’t remove the noise in these ISO 250 images. Sometimes I do wish I had a high-end full frame camera… Or dare I hope for a revolutionary new noise reduction technique (that actually works) in Canon 60D?
Wow, you captured a beautiful sky here. Where I live you have to drive pretty far to get away from the light pollution.
Thanks Mark! Yes I live in a relatively remote village, so I’m lucky to get easily away from light pollution. In this image you can see a hint of orange light though, but it wasn’t visible to my eye when I took the picture.
Can only agree with Mark here. Will leave commenting the equipment out of here
Just one question, how did you survive? -20 or so and… Oh dear…
Oh no it’s not nearly as cold here as in Ljusdal – we have the benefit of altitude. It was only -15 last night.
…and really warm clothes help. 